The weather today is very good, with bright sunshine and gentle spring breeze.

Therefore, Zhao Xu specially selected the place where he summoned Lu Gong to the Imperial Garden behind the Funing Hall.

When Mr. Lu arrived, Zhao Xu was in front of the vegetable garden in the imperial garden, watching the palace maids take care of the newly sprouted seedlings.

"The Secretary of the Shang Dynasty, the Minister of the Left Pushe, the Minister of the Sect, and the Minister of the State of Shen were ordered to meet him!"

Feng Jing's voice sounded in the corridor in front of the Imperial Garden.

Zhao Xu turned around and looked at Lu Gong who followed Feng Jing and entered the imperial garden.

When Mr. Lu saw Zhao Xu, he immediately bowed and said, "I respectfully ask Your Majesty for all blessings."

Then he bowed four times in a proper manner.

Zhao Xu waited until he finished his tribute and said, "The left prime minister doesn't have to be too polite, so let's talk."

At this moment, he was wearing a red shirt and robe of the emperor, wearing a special head and a white jade belt.

Obviously, this was specially changed to meet Lu Gongzhu to show respect.

Mr. Lu bowed again: "Thank you Your Majesty!"

So he stood up respectfully, followed by about three steps before stopping.

"The left prime minister doesn't have to be polite, get closer to the front..." Zhao Xu waved with a smile.

Then Lu Gongzhe took another step forward.

When Zhao Xu saw this, he smiled and shook his head, but no longer forced him. He just looked at the vegetable garden in front of him and said, "Luo Xiang, look at this vegetable garden in my life."

Mr. Lu quietly raised his eyes and looked at the small vegetable garden in front of him.

The vegetable garden is very small, only four or five steps wide and about ten steps long.

But the crops in this vegetable garden are not planted in the vegetable garden.

Instead, it is planted in wooden tubes.

The soil contained in the small tube seems to be ordinary soil.

Zhao Xu explained with a smile: "These are all cucumber seedlings."

Mr. Lu was stunned for a moment.

Zhao Xu continued: "Originally, it would be better to plant again until March..."

"But I can't wait. If I want to eat cucumbers earlier, I will order people to plant them now."

"But the temperature is not very good for cucumbers..."

"I had to think of a way to plant these melon seedlings in these special wooden tubes first, and ask people to take good care of them... I was worried that they were cold at night and were afraid of being frostbite, so I moved them to the warm cabinet..."

"I'm afraid they won't grow well, so I took people to mix black soil with wood ash, chicken manure and other substances as cultivation soil..."

"It's really hard to think!"

As Zhao Xu said, he said to Lu Gong: "The reason for this kind of dish is growing more and more. No wonder Yiduhou (Fan Chi) asked the saints for advice on farming and learning from Pu!"

Mr. Lu hurriedly said, "Your Majesty is the best place to practice farming and sericulture."

"Just..." He was about to say something about the great truth about the saints.

But I saw Zhao Xu's smile-like expression.

So he immediately became smart and reacted - where is the official telling him about growing vegetables?

This is about the things he was in Taifu Temple yesterday, related to the Beijing Municipal Government.

Zhao Xu smiled and said, "How can I understand the agriculture and sericulture?"

"I'm not hiding the Left Prime Minister, I received the seeds of tribute from Yangzhou last year... Yangzhou said that this sausage can be harvested in the cold winter!"

"I was very happy, so I ordered people to plant it. However, it may be that Bianjing is colder than Yangzhou. Most of the glutinous vegetables planted were frozen to death after the first heavy snow last year..."

"The plants that survived by luck did not survive the twelfth lunar month!" Zhao Xu said, and sighed twice regretfully.

Last year's sauna wintering plan ended in failure.

Those scoops were strong, but ultimately defeated by the extremely cold weather at night in Bianjing.

Wen Xunniang was sad for several days!

"So..." Zhao Xu looked at Lu Gong and said, "I just gave these seeds a suitable germination environment!"

"Whether you can live and have a good harvest depends on the efforts of these seeds, as well as the hard work and efforts of the vegetable growers!"

"I'm just sitting there and enjoying the fruits!"

When Mr. Lu heard this, he understood it completely.

Is this talking about growing vegetables?

It is clearly stated that it is about the affairs of the Ministry.

So, he quickly said: "Your Majesty's virtue and praise will be kept in mind."

Zhao Xu smiled: "Just remember it! Just remember it!"

Talking to smart people is so exciting.

There is no need to make it clear, and they will understand it themselves if they make a few hints.

So, Zhao Xu asked, "Lu Qing entered the palace today, let's talk to me carefully about your policy outline!"

Even the title of Zuo Prime Minister became the closer Lu Qing.

"No!" Mr. Lu bowed and said, "I'm sure your Majesty... The old minister is stupid and intends to recruit 100,000 troops from Huainan provinces, Yangzhou, Hangzhou and other places from April this year to prepare for emergencies..."

Zhao Xu became serious, looked at Lu Gong, and asked, "You should know that the 100,000-flat army costs no less than millions... Can the current national finance still afford it?"

"And the government and the government will discuss things even more fiercely by then!"

In the Song Dynasty, when the New Party came to power, it would inevitably preside over the disarmament.

Because Wang Anshi's political achievements in the reform were disarmament and disarmament.

Once the old party upholds power, it will inevitably expand its army.

The direction of expanding the army is mainly to recruit a large number of local bandits and expand the wing army.

On the surface, they were naturally under the banner of "the system of ancestors".

But in fact, Zhao Xu knew, why did they do this?

But he didn't point it out, he just looked at Lu Gong and smiled.

Mr. Lu bowed and said, "Report to Your Majesty... This matter must be done!"

He said, and whispered: "Your Majesty may not know..."

"In Xining, the country once cut the Xiang army from nearly 500,000 to 220,000 at the peak of the three years of Zhiping..."

"But during the Yuanfeng period, the late emperor recruited the Xiang army again, causing the number of Xiang army to increase from 220,000 to more than 300,000..."

"The late emperor has a deep meaning, and I am afraid..."

Zhao Xu waved his hand and interrupted him for the first time: "The Zuo Prime Minister, Huang Kao has told me about this in Japan."

When Mr. Lu heard that Zhao Xu called him the left prime minister again, he also mentioned the "Imperial Examination".

He bowed immediately and didn't dare to say anything more.

"Imperial Caoyan: Since the ancestors of the country, there have been three disadvantages..."

"And the so-called three redundant things are three things, but they are actually one thing!"

Zhao Xu looked at Lu Gong and said, "It is because the country has been living for a long time, and the people have reproduced and flourished. When it comes to Yuanfeng, there are nearly tens of millions of people in the world! But these 100 million people are trapped in the 24th route, 15 prefectures, 238 prefectures, 37 armies, 1,126 counties!"

"Average household registration in each county is nearly 100,000!"

"Like Bian Jing, in a mere corner, there are one million and a million people!"

"Since ancient times, there has been no more than the prosperous household registration in our dynasty!"

"Therefore, there are three disadvantages!"

The three redundant songs of the Song Dynasty were essentially caused by the Malthus trap!

The Middle Ages of Great Song Dynasty encountered the modern Malthus trap.

For the Song Dynasty, this is a nearly unsolvable vicious cycle.

Both the new and old parties are trapped in this vicious cycle.

All efforts and struggles of everyone are actually accelerating this cycle.

For example, Fan Zhongyan and others launched the Qingli School Development Movement and Daxing Prefecture and County Education.

Then, the test papers from all over the world rose.

So much so that the Song Dynasty had to invent special commemoration of famous Jinshi to appease those scholars who failed the exams.

Not only scholars.
To be continued...